Beautiful story. I love the end, how the girl reaches for the peach and bites into it. I also love how Michael talks about Aspen's MS indirectly when Helen dies. Great work!
Harriet Millan replied on Mon, 05/19/2014 - 05:52am
I, too, enjoyed the story. Didn't seem like the main character needed to have committed plagiarism, but that left her education unfinished and her life discombobulated and teetering just like Michael and Aspen and their ailing farm business. The protagonist didn't seem like a dishonest character, though when she kept Aspen's bracelet for a while longer than I would have liked, I considered whether she had a dishonest streak. Thankfully, that was not the case. And in the "geometry of it all," and approximately equidistant from the farm couple who employ her, she is rewarded with a ripe peach. In spite of her academic fall from grace, her life still has potential to be fruitful and fulfilling unlike Michael and Aspen who are ravaged by life's cruelty. I think my students would enjoy this story. Subtle and beautiful portrayal of human tenderness and loss.
Beautiful story. I love the end, how the girl reaches for the peach and bites into it. I also love how Michael talks about Aspen's MS indirectly when Helen dies. Great work!
I, too, enjoyed the story. Didn't seem like the main character needed to have committed plagiarism, but that left her education unfinished and her life discombobulated and teetering just like Michael and Aspen and their ailing farm business. The protagonist didn't seem like a dishonest character, though when she kept Aspen's bracelet for a while longer than I would have liked, I considered whether she had a dishonest streak. Thankfully, that was not the case. And in the "geometry of it all," and approximately equidistant from the farm couple who employ her, she is rewarded with a ripe peach. In spite of her academic fall from grace, her life still has potential to be fruitful and fulfilling unlike Michael and Aspen who are ravaged by life's cruelty. I think my students would enjoy this story. Subtle and beautiful portrayal of human tenderness and loss.